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Title
Item 21: Photographs of G. E. Morrison, his family, servants, colleagues and friends, ca. 1863-1923 / from the papers of George Ernest Morrison
Call number
PX*D 153/vol. 1
Level of description
item
Date

ca. 1863-1923
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
853311
Issue Copy
Partly Digitised : 61 photographs only selected for digitisation
Physical Description
1 album (180 photographic prints) - various sizes
Scope and Content
Photographs are mainly of Morrison from childhood to middle age, his wife and children, and his household in China.

Page 1.
a-b. George Ernest Morrison, one year & nine months.
c. George Ernest Morrison 1873, shot in Turner’s Portrait Room, Moorarool Street, Geelong
d. George Ernest Morrison, 12 years 1874, shot in Turner’s Portrait Room, Moorarool Street, Geelong.
e-f. [Morrison in 1881, aged nineteen]
g. J.W., Easter 1910 [Jennie Wark Robin]

Page 2.
a. [Morrison as a young man, aged around 25]
b-e. [Portraits of Jennie Wark Robin (1889-1923), she became Morrison’s secretary in 1910 and married Morrison in 1912]
f. The three graces and the cat. 6/5/12 [Jennie Morrison and two friends]
g. [Jennie Morrison in lounge chair at home, Peking]

Page 3.
a-b. [Jennie Morrison with the staff’s children at home (Peking) 1912]
c-e. [Jennie Morrison]
f. [Jennie Morrison / photographed by W.H. Wattes, Geelong]
g. [Jennie Morrison]
h. [Living room of Morrison residence, Peking China]

Page 4.
a. [Morrison's two sons as small children, Ian (right), born in May 1913, Alastair (left), born in August 1915)]
b-c. [Morrison with John Ealin Haedwreh?]
d. [Morrison's three children on porch of residence, Ian (right), Alastair (left) and Colin (centre), born in April 1917]
e-f. [Morrison's son Ian in Chinese costume. He followed his father and became a resident correspondent in the Far East. Ian went to the front immediately after the Korean War broke out, and was killed by a mine]
g. [Ian Morrison in sedan chair], inscribed by Morrison. “The Little Viceroy Oct. 1914’”

Page 5.
a-c. [Morrison with his three children]
d. [Morrison's two eldest children Ian (right), Alastair (left)]
e. [Morrison with his three children]
f. [Morrison's three children]
g. [Photograph of sketch of Morrison's eldest? son]

Page 6.
a-h. [Morrison's sons and their friends, various snapshots taken in September 1923]
b-c. [Morrison's eldest son Ian in scout uniform, September 1923]

Page 7.

a. [Morrison’s residence in Peking. The rebuilt main house]
b. [Morrison’s house. The east wing rooms on the right before rebuild ocurred]
c.e.f. [Morrison’s main house with rebuilt west wing rooms on the left]
d. [Morrison’s house. The east wing rooms rebuilt]

Page 8.
a-f. [The Morrison residence in Peking]

Page 9.
a-i. [The Morrison residence in Peking, with servants, and the children of Morrison's No. 2 boy]

Page 10.
a-b. [Servant holding a child outside Morrison's Peking residence.]
c. [Morrison and friend Henry Box-lronside on porch of a house. Box-Ironside was the first secretary to the British Legation from 1897 to 1899 and was acting manager of the Legation]
d. [Photograph of a portrait of a man in golfing outfit. Signed 'Everts Cominine?, dated 1912 at upper right.]
e-f. [Morrison and friends at the cottage in Peking]

Page 11.
a-k. [Snapshots of Morrison with friends and various members of military forces, European and Asian]
c. [Morrison at a picnic with European and Japanese friends. John Jordan (seated on the left, centre) the British Minister to China from 1906; Sir John Mcleavy Brown (seated on the right, centre), served in the Imperial Customs of China and secretary of China to British from 1906]
d. [Morrison (2nd from right) and other foreigners together with W. T. Y. Ting (1st from right ) at a railway station in Peking. They were probably about to visit the Chinese New Troops in the Autumn Manoeuvre]
j. [Morrison and some British officers together with officer of New Troops W.T.Y. Ting (centre) at the Autumn Manoeuvre, 1906]
k. [Morrison talking to a French officer at the Autumn Manoeuvre, 1906]

Page 12.
a-b. [Morrison in courtyard of Peking residence]
c. Sidmouth? [with Morrison's three sons.]
d. On Board the Empress of France [Jennie Morrison]
e. Depart de Tchang - sin tien. 29 Mai
f. Rue de Tchang - sin tien ...

Page 13.
a. Voyage a Tchang - sin tien ... Pelliot, Flish, Villeford, Parot, Bartholm.
b. Runig de Tchang - sin tien 4 juin
c. Arrivee su personnel ... Pikin 29 mai
d. Depart de Chang - tsin - tien.
e. Depart de lo maison Baiultare[?] mai 29
f. Arrive de lo troupe ...
g-h. Pied-a-terre avant l’arriver a Tchang - sin-tien ...
i. [Morrison in uniform on a pony]
j. Abandon de Tchang - sin-tien 29 mai
k. [Morrison on horseback with his Chinese bodyguards]
l. [British officers and civilians boarding a ship]
m. [Unidentified men with horses and carts]
n. [Morrison and friends near tennis court. The bicycles were new to China at this time]

Page 14.
a. [Morrison talking to unidentified gentleman]
b. [Morrison with missionaries and European friends.]
c. Glendinning Najao [and Morrison]
d. [Morrison and two friends on board a boat]
e-f. [Morrison on front steps of residence in Peking]

Page 15.
a. Myself [Morrison] in bed in his journey at Vialjan [?]
b. [Morrison with children of his No. 2 boy]
c-d. [Morrison on front steps of residence]
e. [Morrison with staff’s child and cat]
f. [Morrison at his desk in his reading room in Peking]
g. [Morrison with children of his No. 2 boy, 1905]
h. [Morrison in his courtyard]
i. [Morrison with staff’s child and cat]

Page 16.
a-g. [Morrison in courtyard of his residence]
h. [Morrison with two small Chinese girls]
i. [Morrison with four Chinese children]

Page 17.
a-j. [Morrison, his servants and their children, and his donkey, in and near his residence.]
d. Morrison with his householder Sun Tien-lu in his cottage in Hsishan (Western Mountain in Peking)
e.g.i. The horse stable of Morrison’s house.
f. Morrison with his Western friend outside his house
j. Morrison with his servants’ children outside the city

Page 18.
a-k. [Morrison and his servants at a seaside residence]
b. The servant Sun Tien-lu outside Morrison's cottage in Hsishan (Western Mountain in Peking)
f. Morrison at his cottage in Peitaiho
g. The servant’s wife and child outside Morrison’s cottage.
h. Morrison in his cottage
i. Morrison at his cottage in Peitaiho
j. Morrison’s cottage

Page 19.
a-h. [Various photographs of Morrison as a middle-aged man]
a. [Morrison in profile aged around forty]
h. [Morrison preparing to leave London, February 1911]

Page 20.
a-i. [Various photographic studies of Morrison as a middle-aged man]

Page 21.
a-g. [Portraits of Morrison and group portraits]
a-c. [Morrison with Europeans, group portraits]
f. Morrison and Madam Marshall (G.E. Marshall) on March 12, 1911.

Page 22.
a. [Morrison preparing to leave London, 1911]
b. [Morrison sitting on horseback]
c. [Studio portrait of Morrison]
d. [Morrison sitting on horseback]
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Description source

Content list revised and updated by Xiayu Wu, for the internship component of the Master of Museum Studies course, University of Sydney, July 2010.
Listing reviewed and amended by Warwick Hirst, Archivist, July 2014.
General note

Digital order no:Album ID : 853375
Creator/Author/Artist
Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920
Subject
Photograph albums.
Morrison, Jennie Wark.
Morrison, Alastair, 1915-2009.
Morrison, Ian, 1913-1950.
Morrison, Colin, 1917-1990.
Morrison family--Photographs.
Exhibited in

Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection
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